Bolton Teams Clean-up at Awards Night

August 25, 2008

The Annual Awards Night and Dance of the North Dufferin Baseball League was held Saturday at the Creemore Legion Hall where the League presented regular season awards.

Mike Wallace of the Bolton Brewers receives the Bruce Jenkins Memorial Trophy for the Most Valuable Player in the senior division from League Secretary Scott Anderson

Treasurer Dan Gowan presents the Reg Westbrooke Memorial Trophy for the junior Best Batter to Mack Morrish of the Mansfield juniors

President Myles Morrish (right) presents the 'President's Award' to Tom Anderson of Lisle for his service to the League

Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Secretary and Statistician Scott Anderson who was joined by President Myles Morrish and Treasurer Dan Gown in the presentation of awards.

The Bolton Brewers and the Bolton Braves juniors walked away with a combined 12 awards during the presentation. Both teams placed first in their division during regular season play. The seniors finished first in the East division with a 16 win, five loss and one tie record. The juniors finished with a 16 win and six loss record to capture the top spot. The Creemore Braves finished first in the senior West division with an 18 win and four loss record.

Brett Chater of the Bolton juniors won four awards in total, including Best Pitcher, Best on Base Percentage at .582, Most Runs with 29 scored and was chosen along with Matt Schernitzki of Barrie Red Sox as the Most Valuable Player and received the Statistician's Trophy.

Michael Gemmitti of the juniors took home the award for the Most Home Runs, which was shared with Mansfield junior player Devan Caldwell. Both hit two home runs.

The big winner on the Bolton Brewers was Mike Wallace who was the top in four categories. Wallace was the Best Batter with an average of .593 taking home the Creemore Star Trophy. Wallace also won the Bob Doner Memorial Trophy for the Best on Base Percentage at .714, the Evan Jamieson Memorial Trophy for 30 runs scored and was also named the Most Valuable Player in the senior loop winning the Bruce Jenkins Memorial Trophy.

The final Bolton winner was Adam Wallace of the senior team who was chosen as the Best Catcher in the league and was presented the Carl Gowan Memorial Trophy.

Other award recipients included Mack Morrish of the Mansfield juniors who was awarded the Reg Westbrooke Memorial Trophy with the Best Batting average of .426. Two Creemore players received awards. Brad Grieveson won the Lloyd Patton and Bill Gowan Memorial Trophy as the Best Pitcher in the senior division and Bryan Post took home the Bill Lennox Memorial Trophy for the Most Home Runs with a total of eight.

The Most Sportsmanlike Players of the senior and junior divisions were awarded to New Lowell Knight Todd Patton (Past President's Trophy) and Midland Twin Luc St. Amant (Vice President's Trophy) respectively.

The two Most Valuable Players during the All-Star Game were Mark Obee of Orillia (East Division) and Brandon Norrie of New Lowell (West Division) and received trophies.

The 'President's Award' was presented during the evening marking only the fifth time the award has been presented since it was created in 1984. The award recognizes service to the N.D.B.L. and baseball in the community. This year's recipient was Tom Anderson of Lisle. Anderson played his baseball career with the Lisle Ball Club from 1970 to 1998, authored a history of the N.D.B.L. entitled "Memories" in 1980, served a term on the League Executive and has supported senior and minor baseball in the area. He continues to play baseball with the Dufferin-Simcoe Rockers Oldtimers team.